Cyan blue

Author: Xiao Zhi
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Essentially, these are writings inspired by records; incomplete, they are closely related to the relationship between Haruki Murakami and jazz (yet inappropriately mixed with a touch of folk, rock, soul music, and pop songs); on some level, they also have an ambiguous relationship with film, reading, hamburgers, nightlife, the internet, love, or sex, all existing between reality and fiction. Overall, this is a book with a certain bourgeois taste.
Excerpt: Jazz Portrait While reading Murakami Haruki's Norwegian Wood, I suddenly had an idea with a friend to create a Booktrack—“Novel Sound Record”—dedicated to this book. Later, when I encountered the music album of Murakami Haruki's new work Portrait in Jazz, I felt a special connection, even though I never got to see the book itself, but every time I picked up this record, I felt already satisfied. The tracklist was selected by Murakami and his illustration partner, Wada Makoto, and the cover features jazz legend Billie Holiday, while the portraits of several jazz musicians inside are also drawn by Wada Makoto. Like Murakami's text, they are,.